Print Rich Classroom
Language Arts Center
Planning for Centers
Family-Home Connections
Vocabulary
100

This type of print includes labels, signs, calendars, and visual schedules that children see in everyday life.

What is environmental print?

100

In the language arts area, pencils, markers, crayons, pens, and chalk are considered these.

What are writing tools?

100

Language art centers should be quiet places that are separated from this. 

What are more vigorous classroom activities? 

100

These 3 important factors influence children's literacy at home and school. 

What are settings, models, and planned & unplanned events? 

100

This type of listening is the earliest stage, where children begin to respond to voices and sounds.

What is toddler listening?

200

A learning environment that has labels, books, charts, name tags, and message boards is considered this.

What is a print-rich environment?

200

In addition to writing tools, the center should offer a diverse selection of these items to promote reading for enjoyment.

What are books?

200
CD players, headsets, jacks, and books on CD are all considered a part of this. 

What is the listening center?

200

Talking naturally & clearly, listening when children want to tell you something, avoiding overtly correcting speech errors, and reading stories/poems are all examples of this. 

What are the ways parents can stimulate speaking abilities?

200
Listening with a specific goal, such as following directions or completing a lesson.

What is purposeful listening?

300

Print that serves a purpose, like a class list or dictating an idea.

What is functional print?

300

Puppets & puppet theaters, flannel board sets, and language games are considered this.

What are speech materials? 

300

Educators emphasize the importance of these two areas that encourage large amounts of social interaction and the use of more mature, complex language.

What are dramatic play and blocks?

300

Vanderkam (2009) defines this as the ability to stop, think, plan, and control impulses.

What is self-regulation?

300

Listening for enjoyment, such as music or storytelling.

What is appreciative listening?

400

When a child recognizes that print carries meaning is called this.

What is print awareness?

400

Playing language games with children, recording children's dictation, making word lists, sharing books, and read-a-louds are all.

What is the teacher's role in the language center?

400

A literacy center, reading center, and writing center create this.

What is a literacy environment? 

400
This program attempts to break the intergenerational illiteracy by providing services to both children and adults in the family.

What are family literacy programs?

400

This type of listening evaluates & judges whether information is accurate and makes sense. 

What is critical listening? 
500

Educators encourage children to notice print by doing this during shared reading and throughout the day.

What is pointing to words and letters?

500

It provides space for looking & listening activities, an area for hands-on experiences with communication-developing materials, and a place to store these materials.

What are the 3 main functions of a language center?

500

This type of print should be included to reflect children’s diverse backgrounds.

What is multicultural print?

500

This enables educators to gain an in-depth understanding concerning the culture of the home and its home literacy encouraging activities.

What is a home visit?

500

This is the most basic form of listening, recognizing differences in sounds and tones before meaning.

What is discriminative listening? 

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